A report providing a summary of the progress made with a research program initiated to gain better knowledge of the benthic communities of the deep Gulf of Mexico.

This strategic plan has been prepared by the 13 federal agencies participating in the CCSP, with coordination by the CCSP staff under the leadership of Dr. Richard H. Moss. This strategic plan responds to the President's direction that climate change research activities be accelerated to provide the best possible scientific information to support public discussion and decision-making on climate-related issues.The plan also responds to Section 104 of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which mandates the development and periodic updating of a long-term national global change research plan coordinated through the National Science and Technology Council.This is the first comprehensive update of a strategic plan for U.S. global change and climate change research since the original plan for the U.S. Global Change Research Program was adopted at the inception of the program in 1989.

A report on the physical and biological attributes of "The Point" for boating uses, economic significance, and information inventory.

A study examining the topography, geology, geophysics, currents, hydrography, chemistry and biota of the Northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope.